Do you know what transmission is in the standard TS 348? I have a line on a one-year-old Barely Used TS 348 for $1,000 even. If it has the 66 Model transmission, I'm going to get a helicopter and fly straight to that guy's house and get that thing!
Rock, I would say he is a special kind of stupid to sell at that price or he is unloading for a reason...some things are not a good deal at any price.
Buddy of mine was from W Tx, he got word thru family that old man Jones had died and my Buddy went to the funeral. Jones was prob not much more than a nickel short of being a whole bunch from that cattle ranch with more oil and gas than cattle on it.
Several years later my Buddys dad called him after said after about 7 years of in fighting, court fights etc the dust had settled and they family was selling off all of his personal possesions. My buddy went for the guns, but ended up buying a Motorhome. It was a sweet rig, a Bluebird and prob cost about $150k+ in early '70's dollars. The old man ordered it in Dallas and it took about 8 mo to be delivered with its custom cattle and oil baron touches. It had enough miles to get it from Dallas to the ranch in Midland. There it sat for 7+ years out in the W Tx sun. The old man died before it ever got there.
My buddy called and said: Don, you never guess what I just bought for $3500 bucks.
Ole Wayne aired up the tires, checked the oil, and radiator and topped it off with fuel, installed a couple of new batteries and headed back to Dallas. The engine was running rough and got rougher, the tires well into dry rot all failed, trans blew all the seals and ran dry, the engine seized up as it was overheating and that was less than a 100 mi E of Midland. Nearest dealer was in Dallas where it came from.
When the dust settled I think he had dumped nearly $55k into it IIRC. The entire driveline was rebuilt and or replaced. ALL of the fabric and leather had to be replaced, along with the fridge. By then it was about 10 years old. When he got it back we made a trip down to Waco and back in one day in it. It was nice but its value at current market was only about $25k. Nice rig but so far out of date in looks and features he sold it for about $30k, bit over market, but it had less than a 1000 mi and was near new. He wished he had never bought it.
